Matt Gallagher - Kaboom: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War

Highlands Ranch: When Lieutenant Matt Gallagher, while deployed in Iraq, began his blog with the aim of keeping his family and friends apprised of his experiences, he didn’t anticipate that it would resonate far beyond his intended audience. When the extraordinarily popular blog was shut down in June 2008 by the U.S. Army, there were more than twenty-five congressional inquiries regarding the matter, as well as reports through the military grapevine that many high-ranking officials and officers at the Pentagon were disappointed that the blog had been ordered closed. Gallagher will discuss and sign his new book Kaboom: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War ($24.95 Da Capo). Based on his blog, this book is “at turns hilarious, maddening, and terrifying,” providing “raw and insightful snapshots of a conflict many Americans have lost interest in” (Washington Post). Like Anthony Swofford’s Jarhead, Gallagher’s Kaboom resonates with stoic detachment and timeless insight into a war that we are still trying to understand.

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